Tag Archives: Ontario

The emerald ash borer has been discovered in Bruce County. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed the discovery inWaterworks Park in Lucknow. It’s the first time the bug has turned up in the area, and the CFIA is urging people … Continue reading →

March 16, 2012 Mark Cullen SPECIAL TO THE STAR via Yourhome.ca. If you could have saved the mature elm trees of Toronto from the ravages of the Dutch elm disease, would you have done it? If I offered you the chance … Continue reading →

Town of Oakville completes treatment of almost 2,700 ash trees The Town of Oakville is reminding residents that as part of the Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency’s registration approval of the natural bio-insecticide TreeAzin, the deadline to treat ash … Continue reading →

The emerald ash borer first became a problem in Canada in Windsor Ontario in 2002. Since then it has spread to London, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. While it is expected to devastate the white and green ash trees in Central … Continue reading →

Sarnia needs to take action on hundreds of dying trees decimated by the emerald ash borer because they pose a safety risk to residents, a city man says. Jeff Glass lives on Woodhaven Avenue, where a row of once beautiful … Continue reading →

The Emerald ash borer, the “ebola virus” of its species, will kill most of the 860,000 ash trees of Toronto by 2017. But in Oakville, hope springs eternal. One in 10 of the town’s trees are ash — roughly 180,000. … Continue reading →